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have presumed that the teras would include the usual
provision for crediting to the Colonial Government, in
the Military Lands Account, the value of the land trans- ferred. It appears, however, that the Generel Officer
Commanding contemplates waiver of the normal Military
Lands Account transaction in the case of this site, since
the following passage occurs in a letter from him, dated
16th July, 1937, on the mbject of a site for the extension
of the Bowen Road Military Hospital:-
4.
"In the analogous case of the proposed transfer
of land for a hospital at Danger Flag Hill, Sir
Andrew Caldecott expressed to me the view that
having regard to the purpose for which the land
is required, any transfer to the War Tepartment
should be free, apart from moessary cash
expenditure incurred or to be incurred by the
Government in preparing the site. I gratefully
accepted this offer and hope Your Excellency
will take a similar view in regard to the site
at Bowen Road now asked for".
I should therefore be grateful if you would
inform me whether any concession in respect of the Military
Lands #ecount was in fact intended, or whether some other
concession wes intended, the nature of which may have been
misapprehended by the General ficer Commanding.
50 I shell, of course, feel bound by any undertaking which you may have given to the General Officer Commanding but for the reasons given in the enclosed despatch I have considered it necessary to refer the matter to the
Secretary of State. I should therefore be gled if you would send a copy of your reply to this letter to the
Secretary of State.
6.
The area at first thought of was, as you will